aquariumnoob
Aquarium Advice Regular
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- Apr 1, 2007
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About a month ago I had these worm things in the gravel (thread OMG what are these), and I had also noticed maybe a kinda of larvae in the water (my betta ate a few). When I checked my filter friday for a snail I couldn't find, I found something like fruit flies crawling on my filter. Considering I live in a dorm (a fairly new one), this was unusual because I never even see flies in the dorm, no bugs at all. Well I'm seeing this small white worms about 3mm in length and smaller, several of them in my tank. The things in the gravel are back also. Friday I had cleaned out my filter, and when I put it back in the tank, it wouldn't even attempt to start. So I just bought a new filter, and I had done about a 90% water change trying to get all the excess food out to get rid of the worms in the gravel, but they're back. I'll test the water and post the results, but I may have started a mini cycle when I cleaned and and threw away the old filer cartridge, and then bought a whole new filters. Is there a better alternative than completely emptying the tank and washing the gravel? (10 gal, 3 otos, 3 cories, 1 betta, 1 bamboo shrimp)